The Health and Safety Executive is a body set up to protect the health, safety and welfare of employees and to safeguard others, principally the public, who may be exposed to risk from industry.
The HSE’s remit is to ensure that risks to people’s health and safety from work activities are properly controlled.
New regulations covering work at height will come into force on 6 April 2005
The biggest motivator for employers to fulfil their health and safety obligations is the benefits to workplace morale and productivity, according to research by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
A scaffolding firm has been fined £30,000 following the death of one of its workers.
The Health & Safety Executive...
Employees get chance to air views on health and safety at broadcaster Sky.
Migrant workers could be missing out on crucial health and safety training because their employers only provide them with safety...
An Isle of Wight team providing advice on back care has won the top award in a national competition aimed...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today urged businesses across the UK to ignore all correspondence from a firm calling...
The campaign for tougher laws to prevent workplace death and injury and to hold company directors to account for negligent...
Engineer died despite risk being well known and well understood
Concern that migrant workers could be missing out on crucial health and safety training because employers are not providing material...
FirstAssist implemented Health and Safety Executive guidelines to improve employees' wellbeing. Alex Blyth reports
The rise in deaths at work reported by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has prompted renewed calls for legislation...
Health and safety prosecutions rose 6 per cent to 982 last year, according to the Health & Safety Executive’s annual...
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) launched its fifth annual Health and Safety Offences and Penalties Report today. As well...
A new online Slips Assessment Tool (SAT) that evaluates potential risks to workers and others from slipping hazards in the workplace...
